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The Kai'sa nerf is a joke

Śhunpo·9/6/2019, 8:39:10 AM·98 votes·21,509 views

Seriously? -20% attack speed on E? That's the best the balance team could do?

No nerfing her insane burst, no nerfing her insane shield, no nerfing her passive's consistency (teammates granting stacks)? No base stat nerfs? No evolution stat requirement increases? These would have all been much better changes to really balance Kai'sa.

But no, we got -20% attack speed on her rank 5 E...on a champion who already pretty much caps attack speed at ~3-4 items anyway... Oh, and she doesn't even max this ability first so it's still only a hyper late game nerf, which doesn't do anything since damage in this game results in games being shorter than ever before, especially in pro play, thus meaning that she's still exactly the same in pro play with the exception of outlier matches that go past 15-23 minutes.

I love how the balance team is fine with smacking Akali, Aatrox, Ryze, Azir and Rakan just because of pro play, but the moment Riot's skin sugar baby needs nerfs they just give her a lovetap. I guess she's getting either a Championship or Victorious skin this year. [sg-lulu]

94 Comments

Daddy Ants9/6/2019, 10:01:36 AM47 votes

Akali gets smacked with nerfs because even after being nerfed every single patch since her rework, she's still an extremely toxic and unfun champion.

Demon King Maou9/6/2019, 9:49:51 AM29 votes

Tbh, almost everything they do lately is a joke.[sg-lulu]

Crimson Zeppelin9/6/2019, 3:02:36 PM22 votes

honestly they should nerf her ap scalings as well. She should not have an incentive to buy hourglass

Onerios9/6/2019, 9:25:02 AM12 votes

Wouldn't knock the nerf quite yet, the bulk of her damage comes from on hit effects so attack speed nerf could be a notable decrease in her power, and while she is highly popular she isn't exactly over performing for the bulk of the player base.

I mean, her win rate is held up by the fact she crushes ezreal, who also happens to be insanely popular, while doing ok against lucian (who is her third most common matchup). Things like jinx, xayah, ashe, and draven all perform well against her, but don't get picked as much.

Vlada Cut9/6/2019, 5:22:41 PM6 votes

The need to remove the ability for teammates to stack her passive up, it's more of a Void Slacking than Void Seeking(W pun). She DOESN'T need champions to stack her Passive, she can stack Plasma on Multiplate people at ONCE with item 3085 already.

Her Ult needs to have interchangable hybrid scalings, they need to make it so she get's the shield out of ONE superior stat the most, while other stat providing INFERIOR scaling. Say if you have more AD than AP on hybrid build her ult sclaings should change to high AD scale but low AP scale, and opposite. This SHOULD promote people to building one specific damage stat only(besides AS).

Or just make it that she has ADAPTIVE scaling on her ultimate with EITHER AD scaling or AP scaling depending which stat is higher.

Her Q needs lower AP scaling but higher Q AD scaling with a nerf to isolate damage, as well as lower base damage, and if it really goes terribly low then a buff to multi Q damage to make it more useful with item 3085's bonus auto's. Is an AD evolving ability so AD stat should be superior to AP in damage ratio.

Her W needs to have lower AD scaling but better AP scaling, it's an AP evolving ability afterall so why have even scaling for both stats on the first place? Besides, not like it has actual base stats to nerf...

Her E needs LOWER bonus AS, lower bonus movementspeed when evolved(because you are basically going sonic at this point), LOWER charge time(so she can have SHORTER stealth but automatic compensation for lower charge time), KEEP the current CD because it would be fine as it is with E's stats NERFED. Increasing the CD on her E with stat nerfs would make the ability overnerfed and mostly useless(would take EXTREMLY amount of time to refresh it mid to late game unless you go spam max AS cap with Lethal Tempo, meaning less damage for having a non-damage keystone).

Her Passive WOULD'VE been fine if her teammates could stop stacking it for her. Another feature they should add is her Q stacking plasma(not just the auto after it) and also detonating it, it's just a suggestion.

AS I LAY FEEDING9/6/2019, 5:46:04 PM6 votes

The fact that the Q deals shit ton of dmg and not have to point click and not having a skillshot is beyond me.

Best Jhinx EUNE9/6/2019, 4:51:45 PM5 votes

thanks for proving my point if kai'sa doesn't get nerfed i might consider to stop playing adc entirely

Fear the Kayn9/6/2019, 7:18:30 PM4 votes

Make her W and Passive both deal physical damage so stacking armor is actually effective against her.

eyyy shes balanced now ezpz

ShyImagoghnar9/6/2019, 6:38:09 PM3 votes

graves once got a -3 base AD nerf and it dropped his winrate by 2%

NodirjonSattarov9/8/2019, 5:12:35 PM2 votes

remove her invis and let her players adapt. that's what they did to Ryze and Kog'Maw without warning or hesitation

Aatrox Eichmann9/7/2019, 7:12:10 PM2 votes

Akali needed the smacking. Hell, I’d say she needs a couple more.